Lighting project promotes community

10:14 PM,
Nov. 29, 2012

A light globe hangs from a pine tree in the Sherman Woods subdivision in Port Huron.

Written by

Liz Shepard
Times Herald

After seeing his daughter's North Carolina neighborhood aglow a few years back, Larry Nelson wanted to bring the same effect to his Port Huron home.

Three years ago Nelson decided to deck out his own yard in the Sherman Woods neighborhood in Port Huron using strands of lights around chicken wire spheres.

After neighbors saw the lights, they asked how they could create their own glowing spheres. Nelson said he had a workshop, charged people either a dollar or canned food for the material and donated the goods to Mid-City Nutrition. ...